Please use my home address <miriam.faine@...> for future correspondence. Regards Miriam...
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skellyatsogang
Jan 21, 2007 10:23 pm
Please go to the link below to complete a survey on salary and benefit conditions for ESL and EFL teachers. I'm collecting the data for an article. ...
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Jeff Bragg
chalkfacehero
Jan 29, 2007 12:24 pm
I'm happy to oblige, but... ... Anyone out there? skellyatsogang <skellyatsogang@...> wrote: Please go to the link below to complete a survey on salary...
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Celso
celsocamargors
Jan 29, 2007 4:25 pm
I was just about to ask the same......... ... From: "Jeff Bragg" <chalkfacehero@...> To: <dogme@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 10:05...
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Anahita New
anahitaanew
Feb 2, 2007 3:07 pm
And, where will the article be published. Will you let us know? I'd be interested in the results. Celso <celsocamargors@...> wrote:...
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Susan Kelly
skellyatsogang
Feb 6, 2007 9:58 pm
I'll be happy to share the results and the article with the Dogme group. Susan ... Check out the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta - Fire up a more powerful email and...
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migriff99
Feb 14, 2007 9:34 pm
Hello all, This is my first post though I have been an active reader and ponderer since 2004. This afternoon, I suddenly became excited about sharing what I...
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Julian Bamford
julian12jp
Feb 15, 2007 1:14 am
Hey Mike, Thanks for sharing your class and blog. It was delightful to read, maybe because it reminds me of when I've taught a small group of students in an...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Feb 15, 2007 5:56 am
Mike, I welcome your blog because it marries two interests of mine - dogme and certain uses of the Internet. Good luck to you and your students. Dennis ...
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Peter Thwaites
diamond_fingerz
Feb 15, 2007 9:42 am
Hi Julian, Possibly a naive comment, this, but your sentence: One breakthrough I had a long time ago was realizing that not every student had to experience...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Feb 15, 2007 11:58 am
Peter, An excellent line of thought and not in the least naive, I would say. My contribution. What are we considering, whether a lesson works for the techer or...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Feb 15, 2007 1:56 pm
Hi Mike I enjoyed your blog too. I think it's a brilliant way to record the course as it emerges/develops. I love the way the words are linked to definitions -...
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Rob Haines
romiha1
Feb 15, 2007 3:53 pm
When I read the list these days, I like to mine the archives for postings that are relevant to the current thread(s). Searching under "lessons that work" I...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Feb 15, 2007 4:17 pm
Rob, A stimulating post. I find the idea of a lesson working (or not) raises several fundamental pedagogical issues and therefore relevant to dogme. Behind...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Feb 15, 2007 6:01 pm
Well Rob and Dennis it is nice to be quoted but even I blinked at that one - no doubt taken out of a rigorously academic context ;) I think the point is that a...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Feb 16, 2007 9:49 am
Andrew Wright just wrote on YL learners list an opnion that I thought the dogme list would appreciate: " Learning English should be a by-product of doing...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Feb 16, 2007 12:53 pm
Nice quote, Dennis (and Andrew). I think we've often imagined it here as a by-product of talking about interesting things. A key issue is trust: as learning is...
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Jeff Bragg
chalkfacehero
Feb 16, 2007 6:25 pm
Yes, but what's 'interesting' to one person / race / culture is not necessarily of interest to another. For example, I got my...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Feb 16, 2007 7:11 pm
Jeff, I like your contrast between answering and pandering, and of course you are right about "interesting" being a highly subjective term. I particularly...
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Russell Kent
russkent321
Feb 16, 2007 7:47 pm
Hi Everyone, Nice to see that the list is still up and running. It seemed to quiet for a while. I think 'learning being a by-product' fits neatly with...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Feb 16, 2007 8:20 pm
Hi Russ, and all I don't think CLiL is quite 'Learning as a by-product.' With CLiL there is definitely a learning aim, it's just not explicitly language...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Feb 16, 2007 9:18 pm
Hello again, Adrian. I've been trying to remember, but cannot, who it was that said you can aid learning by focusing away from what you would like to be...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Feb 16, 2007 10:54 pm
Lao Tzu said something pretty much along those lines in the Tao Te Ching: In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao,...
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Mihaela Dascalu
midas_ro
Feb 17, 2007 7:07 am
Hi all At the SIT vermont while studying for my Masters, we had to read a few books (some excerpts). One of them was Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi' Enjoyment and the...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Feb 19, 2007 11:45 am
Like generations of pretentious young men I was impressed by Andre Gide's similar remarks in Nourritures Terrestres, which I find online translated (clumsily)...
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ja03affa
Feb 20, 2007 2:33 am
Apologies for taking the recent exchanges on learning to a more banal level, but am trying to acces the teaching unplugged site, as suggested in the following...
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Rob Haines
romiha1
Feb 20, 2007 2:48 am
Allyson, here's the mirror site for teaching-unplugged, compliments of Dennis: http://snipurl.com/s0ns Mihaela, what do you say to people who suggest that SIT...
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Jeff Bragg
chalkfacehero
Feb 21, 2007 10:36 am
Allyson, Maybe there's a link between "teaching unplugged" and "teaching undrugged"? Both of them might be a novelty for some teachers! Jeff ja03affa...
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diarmuid_fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Feb 21, 2007 10:47 am
... much time reading soft and fuzzy books without delving into applied linguistics? ... students are beyond an "intermeidate" level, they are probably not ...
